how to get the source of html in lxml?

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Mon Dec 31 01:48:12 EST 2012


On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:32 PM, contro opinion <contropinion at gmail.com> wrote:
> import urllib
> import lxml.html
> down='http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_71f3890901017hof.html'
> file=urllib.urlopen(down).read()
> root=lxml.html.document_fromstring(file)
> body=root.xpath('//div[@class="articalContent  "]')[0]
> print body.text_content()
>
> When i run the code, what i get is the text content ,how can i get the html
> source code of it?

print lxml.html.tostring(body)

Did you read through the lxml.html documentation?
http://lxml.de/lxmlhtml.html
It includes several examples that make use of lxml.html.tostring().

RTFineM-ly Yours,
Chris



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